Category: John Christopher

‘How long have you known him?’ Her curiosity must have been strongly roused for her to put the direct question. Jane said: ‘Oh, a few months.’ ‘I should think he’s very different from your Professor.’...

He had put the electric fire on in the bedroom, so that it was warm in there. They undressed, watching and smiling at each other. There being no distractions to the eye heightened their consciousness...

The presiding magistrate was Coates-Bender, a member of Rod’s Club. When the defending counsel began a long discourse on the contrition of the accused, he cut him short. ‘I don’t want to limit your freedom...